Proposal

[houstonlibrarian]

A stranger comes to you and offers to give you a one time lump sum of $20,000 bucks tax free....if you agree to never again play a video game of any kind for the rest of your life.

Would you do it?
If not, for what price would you do it?

[walrusmonger]

I love questions like this, it really makes you think (if you respect the question).

I probably would, because $20k would pay my car off and all of my debt, plus give me nice padding, and I'd be able to sell ALL of my games/systems to make another $10k. I find myself more into movies, books, and music now, so it wouldn't be the end of the world.

It would be hard when virtual reality type stuff comes out before I die though.

[hellfire]

Ive spent about 20k on video games........

[sebastiankirchoff]

No way. I enjoy video games a lot and I don't want to quit playing them.

[Kid Ice]

I wouldn't give up one of the great joys of life for money, especially a paltry 20K that would be gone in a year. I might give up something else, like soda, for 20K in video games though.

[portnoyd]

a paltry 20K

That's it right there. It's so insignificant, it's not even funny. Even $20k/year for the rest of your life will have diminishing returns as you get older and inflation rears its ugly head.

$1 mil tax free? That would make it interesting. The question is... can I still collect games? And where does the line draw with any video game? Does that mean, as an example, no video poker at a casino? How about any extremely casual PC fare like Freecell?

These terms would need to be nerded out in detail.

[Garry Silljo]

No way at all. That's only slightly less than half a year's pay. To spend the next 40 to 60+ years unhappy. The money would be great in the short term but not nearly enough, and then in the long term it would be a miserable deal. Now if I was, say ..., 92 years old or something I'd probably take the money.

[11killer11]

To tell you the truth, i don't think this topic is supposed to be in The Classic Gaming sub-forum but i'll answer anyway.

I wouldn't take it even if they offered me $500,000.

On the other hand 1 million I would think about!

[TheRedEye]

I knew librarian salaries were low, but wow.

[eskobar]

20,000 usd does it for me :D

If that proposal was real i would just quit playing videogames and enjoy more about life and my environment.

I could use the money for a SUBARU IMPREZA or probably a trip to Japan or Europe; that experience could last forever, much more than any game that i could play.

[Starwander]

You'll have to prey my video games out of my cold dead hands.

[Cobra Commander]

Nope. Never because if I had 20K right in my hands, one of the first things I would do is go buy some games. I won't give something like gaming. To me, it's priceless.

[Howie6925]

20k is way to low to give up games. Maybe anything over a million, I would be to busy tavelling and such to worry about playing games.

[walrusmonger]

20,000 usd does it for me :D

If that proposal was real i would just quit playing videogames and enjoy more about life and my environment.

I could use the money for a SUBARU IMPREZA or probably a trip to Japan or Europe; that experience could last forever, much more than any game that i could play.

Yup, there is far more to life than video games. Sure, I enjoy playing games, but you can fill the "entertainment void" with tons of other stuff.

$20,000 isn't a ton of cash, but it is enough for me. I think people would change their minds if someone really had the cash in their hands.

[The 1 2 P]

No, especially when I could sell my current video game collection piece by piece and make $20,000. I love playing too much so in order for me to really think about it they'd have to offer up atleast $1 million....after taxes.

EDIT: I thought this thread was going to be about a dude asking one of the female members to marry him. I'm glad I was wrongLOL

[ToddofDoom]

I think for me what makes the thought of having a lot of money (Like say, a million dollars) romantic is the amount of freedom that would go along with the money. Diminishing the amount of freedom I would have with a condition like "You can't play video games" makes it less romantic and desirable.

I probably would never stop playing video games for any amount of money, unless the sum was astronomical. Having all the money in the world doesn't do you any good if you can't do what you want.

[walrusmonger]

No, especially when I could sell my current video game collection piece by piece and make $20,000. I love playing too much so in order for me to really think about it they'd have to offer up atleast $1 million....after taxes.

EDIT: I thought this thread was going to be about a dude asking one of the female members to marry him. I'm glad I was wrongLOL

I was under the impression the $20,000 would be to stop- you could then sell your collection since you cant play it anymore.

[The 1 2 P]

I was under the impression the $20,000 would be to stop- you could then sell your collection since you cant play it anymore.

My point was that $20,000 wasn't enough money considering I could make that on my own. And if I'm not going to be gaming no more, I better have alot more money than $20,000 because the money would be funding a new hobby and paying off my bills.

[garagesaleking!!]

this is a really hard question to answer, at the current time i would have to say no, im in college right now, and 20,000 is enough to pay for 1 year lol. I need games to relieve stress and kill time. Now say i have a job and am out of school a few years from now, i would take the money to pay off my loans and could find other things to do.

[houstonlibrarian]

You have to start the bidding low guys. If I asked if you would give it up for 5 million, everyone would say yes and we wouldn't have a thread.

It was built into the original question to possibly go higher than 20 thousand.
If 20 thousand is chump change to everyone here, then answer the second part of the original question.

How much would it take?
I know everyone has to have a price.

[NoahsMyBro]

For a million I'd start considering it.

But as Portnoyd said, details would need to be hashed out.

[kupomogli]

I don't think I'd stop playing video games for anything less than a half million. To fill the void though, I'd probably watch Youtube videos all day about the video games I can't play.

[aclbandit]

No way. Games really are my main hobby, and if I had a lot of money to spend, I wouldn't really know what to spend it on if not games I couldn't afford before.

[Garry Silljo]

If 20 thousand is chump change to everyone here, then answer the second part of the original question.

How much would it take?
I know everyone has to have a price.

However much the other guy has to offer, plus $8 ... so they'll always be $8 short.

[Dr. Dib]

I have to go with most of the other people's and say no to the $20,000 mark. Video games are my passion and I couldn't give it up for that much money. A (nearly) life long hobby isn't worth $20. Obviously if I was growing out of video games I'd accept, but for now I am not.

The amount that probably would get me to accept would be over 9,000 billion dollars or some amount like that that isn't so comedic. I figure with that much money I'd be able to live out the fantasies of video games anyway, so why would I need the virtualization?

Alternatively I could buy every video game around the country and every video game producing company/website while bribing anyone with the skill to make a game to not make video games so I wouldn't be alone in my deal. The best part would be that I'd have a lot of money and others wouldn't.

Wow, I sometimes get a little too evil in my forum posts.

[rbudrick]

Let's see, even at $1m, I'd be rich and miserable because I couldn't enjoy my favorite hobby. No sir, not me. That, and I know it's hypothetical and all, but how would they stop me after they gave me the dough? Would it be like Quitters, Inc. style enforcement tactics?

-Rob

[SegaAges]

I would have to be wealthy enough for the rest of my life to not want to buy video games. I know that if I lived like a movie star with an income like them, I could easily find another way to spend money. At the same token, video games are just it for me.

It is hard to explain, but it is me. I have been hardcore into games for awhile, and losing games is like losing who I am as a person. It is what I do. Nobody around me is into games like me. Nobody is a collector. I don't do it because others do it.

I also don't do it for image. If I was going for image in what I did, I would not be a game collector I could tell you that much. I would be more into music or acting or something.

I enjoy video games. They fill an empty void. It is not just about entertainment, shit, I may not ever play some of the games I have bought, but I enjoy getting them, showing them to people, and am really proud of my collection regardless of its size.

I would say that the only way I would ever give it up is if I was given enough money to be rich for the rest of my life like an actor or high paid musician or something. if I am dumb enough to blow all of that money and go the way of MC Hammer, than that is my choice, and then I have no money.

What is that amount? I don't know, check up on an actor's yearly earnings (a high paid one, but does not need to be a fucking tom cruise or something) and then that is the amount I want, per year.

[jcalder8]

Enough money so that they couldn't stop me from playing once I had it, however much that would take.

[Cryomancer]

I'd rather sell a kidney or something.

I would use the money on games.

[Haoie]

Nah. I value my gaming time, a lot.

[Berserker]

No, and none. I don't see much of a point to a life where I'm not able to pursue the things I'm passionate about.

[Icarus Moonsight]

My first thought is, once I'm given the money how do you make sure I'm keeping to my part of the agreement? What prevents me from having my 20k monies and games too?

[WhatsMyUsername]

I doubt i could, I enjoy other hobbies, like reading, movies, writing, piano, etc. However, none-of them can cheer me up, can get my mind off of something. Not only that but i get bored of them after a while, I really don't know what i would do with myself if i didn't have games to play. Not only that, but (this goes off of classic gaming but oh well) I've got a close group of friends on Xbox Live, we talk and have fun with each a lot of the time and if i had to lose out on that social network I'd go insane.